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Gizmodo Interviews Me About “Bedlam’s Door” and Mental Illness

Real Stories About Real People Show Complexity of Mental Illness

A Hungarian-born man is found ranting in the street that he is “king of the Puerto Ricans.” A perfectly healthy woman feels compelled to undergo over a dozen operations. A man in a straightjacket somehow manages to commit suicide while inside a locked psychiatric ward.

These are just a few of the compelling stories in Mark Rubinstein’s new book, Bedlam’s Door: True Tales of Madness and Hope. (You can read an exclusive excerpt he...

Thanks to the “Cyberlibrarian” for this review of “Bedlam’s Door”

The Cyberlibrarian: Reviews and Views on Current Literature

Welcome to my blog. I am Miriam Downey, the Cyberlibrarian. I am a retired librarian and a lifelong reader. I read and review books in four major genres: fiction, non-fiction, memoir and spiritual. My goal is to relate what I read to my life experience. I read books culled from reviews in The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, Bookmarks, and The New Yorker. I also accept books from authors and publicists. I am having a gre...

‘With Love From the Inside,’ A Conversation with Angela Pisel

Angela Pisel has worked as a therapist and life coach, mentoring women through various stages of their lives. With Love from the Inside is her debut novel.

With Love from the Inside focuses on Grace Bradshaw whose time is running out. She’s on death row for the murder of her infant son, and all appeals have been exhausted. Her execution date has been set and she wants her now-married daughter, Sophie, to know the truth about what really happened to her baby brother William.

Sophie hasn’t bee...

Thanks for the kudos about Bedlam’s Door from the “Review Broads”

Bedlam’s Door – a review

‘The One Man,’ A Conversation with Andrew Gross

Andrew Gross is known to millions of readers as an internationally bestselling author of thrillers.

But, The One Man is a riveting historical thriller unlike anything else Andrew Goss has ever written. Behind the barbed wire of Auschwitz, Professor Alfred Mendl seems just like an old man who writes gibberish on scraps of paper, but the U.S. government knows Mendl’s knowledge could very well change the course of history.

U.S. Army Lieutenant Nathan Blum, an escapee from the Krakow ghetto, whos...

‘The Wolf road,’ A Conversation with Beth Lewis

Beth Lewis has travelled extensively and while pursuing her many interests has had close encounters with black bears, killer whales, and great white sharks. She works as a managing editor at a leading London publisher.

The Wolf Road, her debut novel, introduces the reader to Elka, a 17-year-old girl who ten years earlier, was found wandering, lost and hungry by a solitary hunter who took her in. Over the intervening decade, he taught her how to survive in a desolate post-apocalyptic land. Now...

‘The Wolf Road,’ A Conversation with Beth Lewis

Beth Lewis has travelled extensively and while pursuing her many interests has had close encounters with black bears, killer whales, and great white sharks. She works as a managing editor at a leading London publisher.

The Wolf Road, her debut novel, introduces the reader to Elka, a 17-year-old girl who ten years earlier, was found wandering, lost and hungry by a solitary hunter who took her in. Over the intervening decade, he taught her how to survive in a desolate post-apocalyptic land. Now...

‘The Heavenly Table,’ A Conversation with Donald Ray Pollock

Donald Ray Pollock worked as a laborer and truck driver until he was 50, when he enrolled in the English program at Ohio State University. While there, his debut short story collection Knockemstiff was published. His first novel, The Devil All the Time, was published when he was 57 years old. His work has appeared in various literary journals; and in 2009, he won the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize. In 2012, he received a Guggenheim Fellowship.

His second novel, The Heavenly Table, follows two in...

‘Judgment Cometh,’ A Conversation with Scott Pratt

Scott Pratt is the bestselling author of the Joe Dillard series of legal thrillers. He was a criminal defense attorney before becoming a full-time novelist.

In Judgment Cometh, the eighth Joe Dillard novel, Joe is hired to defend a man who was driving a pick-up, which when stopped for a traffic violation, was found to have containers with body-parts in the truck’s bed. They are the remains of a judge who had gone missing. As Joe explores the case, he comes to believe his client is not guilty....

‘Killer Look,’ A Conversation with Linda Fairstein

Linda Fairstein is known to millions of readers. Her Alexandra Cooper novels are international and New York Times bestsellers and have been translated into more than a dozen languages.

In Killer Look, the 18th novel featuring Alex Cooper, Linda takes the reader into the rarified and glamorous world of high fashion. But high fashion means ultra-high stakes. When murder rocks New York City’s Fashion Week, Alex, along with Detectives Mike Chapman and Mercer Wallace, strives to expose the culprit...